The "deep field" image released at a meeting in the White House in Washington DC is filled with lots of stars, massive galaxies in the foreground and faint, extremely distant galaxies looking ahead here and there.

Part of the image shows light from not too long after the Big Bang, which occurred 13.8 billion years ago.

"We will give humanity a new perspective on the cosmos," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters last month in a briefing.

"And it's a view we've never seen before."

On Tuesday, the image will be followed by four more galactic "beauty images" from the telescope's outward views.

See the clip below to know more about the super telescope.

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The Hubble Telescope can see a bit in infrared, as in the picture on the far right, and it gives a hint of how James Webb will be able to see the universe - albeit better.

Photo: Nasa